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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Jeniffer Donald" <jeniffer@firstgroupsecurity.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:53:34 -0600
Subject: GREETINGS AND CONGRATULATIONS

WINNING NOTIFICATION

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

RESULTS FOR SECOND CATEGORY DRAWS.

After a successful completion of the second category draws of CYBER-LOTTO
GAMES INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS. You have emerged one of the winners of the
CYBER-LOTTO GAME INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS, which is part of SWIFT LOTTERY
PROMOTIONS promotional draws. Participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from 30,000 email
addresses of individuals and companies from America,Africa, Asia, Australia,
Canada, Europe, Middle East,and New Zealand as part of our International
Promotions Program.

We got a notification from SWIFT LOTTERY PROMOTIONS to get intouch with you
on how to claim your prize.
You attached to:

SERIAL NUMBER:14-83-DNL drew the
LUCKY NUMBER:11,16, 29,RGN 36, 38, 42 and
REFERENCE NUMBER: ASL-WF74-5G2
BATCH NUMBER:OX2T-3T2T-D2N

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 2,000,000.00EUROS in
cash, which is the winning payout for second categories winners. This is
from the total prize money of 16,000,000.00Euros shared among the eight
international winners in the SECOND category.

CONGRATULATIONS!
You have to contact the (FIRST GROUP SECURITY LTD LONDON) for immdiate
remittance your E-mail address won the lucky number. To avoid mix up of
numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep this award strictly
from public notice until the entire process of transferring your claims has
been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants of this program.


CONTACT MR MICHEAL EDWARD, PAYMENT OFFICER.
FIRST GROUP SECURITY, LONDON-UNITED KINGDOM
EMAIL:kelvin@firstgroupsecurity.com
TEL : 44 704 011 6713 .

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